TEST 3 review

Question 1

Which are true of the Hypnagogic State?

Accepted Answer

totally relax to prepare for sleep, lose voluntary muscle control

Question 2

What is flowing consciousness?

Accepted Answer

awareness drifts from thoughts

Question 3

Kinds of Memory: Episodic

Accepted Answer

memories of events experienced, "episode"

Question 4

WHY COPE?

Accepted Answer

avoid overuse of defense mechanisms and temptations to misuse drugs/food, use aggression for benefit and get in touch with self and social support, cognitively train yourself to cope and develop perspective, maintain healthy balance and engage body in purposeful work

Question 5

DRUGS: personal responses depend on...

Accepted Answer

gender and social statistics, social situation and expectations, mood, dose

Question 6

Sleep Disorders: What is Sleep Apnea?

Accepted Answer

breathing stops/ becomes irregular during periods of sleep

Question 7

What is chunking?

Accepted Answer

grouping information for enhancing short-term memory

Question 8

Defense Mechanisms: Reaction Formation

Accepted Answer

saying the opposite of your actual desire

Question 9

What is Manifest Content?

Accepted Answer

has an obvious meaning

Question 10

Psychologically and Behaviorally reactions to stress...

Accepted Answer

moodiness and irritability, inflexibility and controlling others, difficulty sleeping and ignoring healthful practices, more drugs

Question 11

Categories: Background Stressors

Accepted Answer

everyday annoyances that cause minor irritations, may have long-term ill effects if coping aren't involved

Question 12

Sleep Disorders: What is Insomnia?

Accepted Answer

difficulty waking up early, difficulty falling asleep

Question 13

Defense Mechanisms: Regression

Accepted Answer

returning to an earlier behavior

Question 14

Memory Retrieval: Recall

Accepted Answer

based upon very little stimulus

Question 15

Typical sources of Stress...

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pressure, environmental conditions, life events, frustrations and conflict

Question 16

What is rehearsal?

Accepted Answer

helps us renew info in short-term memory through repetition

Question 17

Coping is

Accepted Answer

the efforts to control, reduce, and learn, to tolerate the stress threats

Question 18

Memory Retrieval: Explicit

Accepted Answer

intentional effort in retrieval

Question 19

What is true of the REM?

Accepted Answer

most memorable dreams occur here, stands for Rapid Eye Movement

Question 20

Defense Mechanisms: Sublimation

Accepted Answer

channeling disturbing impulses into acceptable activities

Question 21

Type B:

Accepted Answer

relaxed and laid back

Question 22

DRUGS: what is tolerance?

Accepted Answer

capacity to endure effects

Question 23

Which of the following is true of Night Terrors?

Accepted Answer

upsetting nocturnal experiences, typically in stage 3 of sleep, most common in preschool children

Question 24

What are semantic networks?

Accepted Answer

mental representations of interconnected info to support memory

Question 25

What is true of the Stages of Sleep?

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each stage gets progressively deeper, we pass through these levels many times during sleep, 3 stages + REM, each stage has different brain wave and body response characteristics

Question 26

Defense Mechanisms: Projection

Accepted Answer

attributing unacceptable thoughts and feelings to another person

Question 27

Type A:

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competitive and driven

Question 28

General Adaptation Syndrome:

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1) Alarm: FIGHT or FLIGHT, this theory is challenged by some, 3) Exhaustion: collapse... STRESS... death!, 2) Resistance: perservering

Question 29

Memory Kind: Procedural

Accepted Answer

skills and habits, "how to"

Question 30

Forgetting: Cue-Dependant

Accepted Answer

we don't have sufficient retrieval cues to spark the memory

Question 31

Biological reaction to stress:

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rise in hormonal secretion in the adrenal glands, changes in how well skin conducts electrical impulses (sweat), increase in heart rate and BP, deterioration of some body tissues (HEART!)

Question 32

Forgetting: Motivated

Accepted Answer

we try to forget

Question 33

Memory Stage: Long-term

Accepted Answer

relatively permanent storage, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and sometimes the amygdala are involved, emotions are connected

Question 34

Defense Mechanisms: Repression

Accepted Answer

blocking feelings and experiences that cause anxiety

Question 35

What is the Activation-Synthesis Theory?

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random activation of memories, realtes to activity in our brains

Question 36

DRUGS: what is withdrawal?

Accepted Answer

overpowering cravings

Question 37

DRUGS: what does it mean to be psychologically dependant?

Accepted Answer

mind believes that it needs it

Question 38

Categories: Cataclysmic Events...

Accepted Answer

strong stressors that occur suddenly and may affect many people

Question 39

What is the Reverse Learning Theory

Accepted Answer

filtering through the "JUNK", unlearn unnecessary info

Question 40

What is true of the non-REM?

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dreams are more fragmented, less emotional and less vivid, dreams occur

Question 41

Altered Consciousness: Meditation

Accepted Answer

refocusing attention, state of deep relaxation and appears to have health benefits, cultural interpretations exist

Question 42

DRUGS: what are stimulants?

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example is caffeine, effect on CNA is rise in heart rate, BP, and muscular tension

Question 43

Process of Memory: Storage

Accepted Answer

maintenance of information over time

Question 44

Processes of Memory: Encoding

Accepted Answer

modifying information so it can be placed in memory

Question 45

Stress is...

Accepted Answer

any circumstance that strains an individual's ability to cope

Question 46

Memory Retrieval: Implicit

Accepted Answer

NOT involving conscious awareness

Question 47

What is true of the Unconscious Wish Fulfillment Theory?

Accepted Answer

sexual/ aggressive content, Freud's Psychoanalytic Perspective, full of unconscious material

Question 48

Defense Mechanisms: Displacement

Accepted Answer

taking stress out on non-involved individiual or thing

Question 49

What is true of Sleepwalking?

Accepted Answer

can appear during stressful times, most common in children, deep stages of sleep

Question 50

Influences for our UNIQUE reactions to stress...

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gender and personality, social support, prior experiences and development, predictability and control

Question 51

Altered Consciousness: Hypnosis

Accepted Answer

depends upon susceptibility to suggestion, application: entertainment, bad habits, pain relief, therapy, state of deep relaxation, narrowly focused attention

Question 52

What is directed consciousness?

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focused, controlled, one tracked, directed toward a single focus

Question 53

What is true of Sleeptalking?

Accepted Answer

most common in young adults, can happen at any age, happens at any stage of sleep

Question 54

DRUGS: what is considered use?

Accepted Answer

"in moderation"

Question 55

Sleep Disorders: What is Narcolepsy?

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sudden onset of sleep during the day

Question 56

Memory Retrieval: Recognition

Accepted Answer

relies on recognition from a list

Question 57

Forgetting: Decay Theory

Accepted Answer

memories not used fade over time

Question 58

Memory Process: Retrieval

Accepted Answer

bringing info to consciousness, finding stored info

Question 59

All altered states of consciousness have what in common?

Accepted Answer

indescribable, intense positive emotions, distortions of perception

Question 60

Categories: Personal Stressors

Accepted Answer

major life events, have immediate negative consequences that may fade

Question 61

Which of the following is true of Nightmares?

Accepted Answer

most common in children, can appear in times of stress, mostly in REM sleep

Question 62

Magic Number 7 + or - 2

Accepted Answer

usual short-term memory capacity

Question 63

Forgetting: Reconstruction/ Schema Theory

Accepted Answer

we don't forget, memories may get distorted over time

Question 64

Stages of Memory: Sensory

Accepted Answer

first encountered by stimulus, lasts a second or so

TEST 3 review

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TEST 3 review

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